====== Graduate Advice Day (GAD) ====== Graduate Advice Days (GADs) are presentations by faculty, students, and guests that provide current UTCS graduate students with career advice, such as: * Completing the graduate program * Performing research * Finding a job * Living life as a UTCS graduate GADs are usually be held on the last Friday of this month, immediately prior to TGIF. Slides or recordings of GAD presentations are posted on the [[research_career_advice|Research & Career Advice]] page. ===== Previous Years' GAD Adgendas ===== ==== 2015-2016 Academic Year ==== === December 2, 2015 === * Topic: How to find an advisor * Informal session ==== 2013-2014 Academic Year ==== === January 29, 2014 === * Topic: Resume Workshop * Speaker(s); Melanie Pearce, UT College of Natural Sciences, Career Design Center === September 27, 2013 === * Topic: Planning Your Research * Speaker(s); Prof. Ray Mooney, UTCS ==== 2012-2013 Academic Year ==== === April 26, 2013 === * Topic: Tips for Teaching * Speaker(s): Prof. Calvin Lin and Prof. Lorenzo Alvisi, UTCS === January 25, 2013 === * Topic: Preparing for Academia * Speaker(s): Prof. Kristen Grauman, UTCS === November 30, 2012 === * Topic: Paper writing * Speaker: William Cook * Time/Place: 3:00-4:00pm PAI 3.14 === October 26, 2012 === * Topic: Acing your RPE * Speaker: Don Fussell * Time/Place: 3:00-4:00pm PAI 3.14 === September 28th, 2012 === * Topic: Fellowships * Speaker: Panel discussion * Time/Place: 3:00-4:00pm PAI 3.14 ==== 2011-2012 Academic Year ==== === September 30, 2011 === * Topic: Finding and Obtaining Fellowships and Grants * Speaker(s): Previous Fellowship Recipients? * Time/Place: 3:00-4:00pm PAI 3.14 === October 28, 2011 === * Topic: Research in Industrial Labs vs. Academia * Speaker(s): TACC? IBM Austin Lab, MSR * Time/Place: 3:00-4:00pm ACES 2.402 === November 18, 2011 === * Topic: Inter-Disciplinary Research with Real-World Applications * Speaker(s): Tandy Warnow? Risto? * Time/Place: 3:00-4:00pm === January 27, 2012 === * Topic: Preparing your Resume/CV OR Interviewing Skills (coding) * Speaker(s): * Time/Place: 3:00-4:00pm ==== 2010-2011 Academic Year ==== | 24 Sep 2010 | Fellowships | Prof. van de Geijn, Bryan Marker | | 22 Oct 2010 | Advisors -- Finding and Managing Them | Panel: Donald Fussell, Peter Djeu, and Don Porter| | 28 Jan 2011 | Preparing your PhD proposal | Graduate students, including Eric and Jeremy | | 25 Mar 2011 | Writing Papers | Mike Dahlin | | 29 April 2011 | Finding an Academic Position | Kathryn McKinley | ==== 2009-2010 Academic Year ==== | 30 Apr 2010 | Research Funding (Prof. W. Hunt) | | 26 Mar 2010 | Conference Talks & Networking (Profs. P. Stone and C. Lin) | | 05 Mar 2010 | Tools for Becoming an Excellent Researcher | | 29 Jan 2010 | Internships -- Industrial and Research (Prof. R. van de Geijn) | | 25 Sep 2009 | Fellowships | ==== 2008-2009 Academic Year ==== === Feb 6 @ ACES 2.402 === * 9:00 am - //We want you to succeed!// J Strother Moore * 9:15 am - //Job and internship interview questions to ask and expect//, Kathryn S McKinley * 9:45 am - //Practicum: Practice interviewing with your peers.// * 10:15 am - //Break// * 10:30 am - //Panel led discussion: What I wish I had done in graduate school and the best thing I did do//, Mike Walfish & Brent Waters * 11:30 am - //Networking//, Adam Klivans * 12:00 pm - //Lunch & Practicum: Give an elevator talk.// Come prepared to describe your research to a student outside your research area. * 1:00 am - //Looking back, peering ahead//, Rama Kotla, Microsoft Research (UT PhD 2008) * 1:30 pm - //Practicum: Curriculum vitae swap.// Bring your CV. You will exchange with a student outside your research area. * 2:00 pm - //I speak pretty now//, Kristen Grauman * 2:30 pm - //Break// * 3:00 pm - //Interdisciplinary research//, Luay Nakhleh, Assistant Professor, Rice University (UT PhD 2004) * 3:30 pm - //On writing well//, William Cook * 4:00 pm - //Practicum: writing swap.// Bring a one to two page writing sample, such as the abstract and introduction of a work in progress, your research statement, or a paper critique. You will exchange with a student outside your research area. * 4:45 pm - //Evaluation:// Fill out web evaluation form. ==== 2007-2008 Academic Year ==== ==== 2006-2007 Academic Year ==== UTCS Graduate Advice Day, Feb 23, 2007 * Overview & What we are doing to help you succeed, J Moore, Department Chair * Communication Skills, Adam Klivans * Panel: What Will I Do When I Graduate? (Praveen Yalagandula, HP; Dave Moriarty, Apple; Seth Pettie, University of Michigan -- all UT PhD grads) * Managing Your Advisor, Keshav Pingali * Panel: Tools and Advice for AI, Systems, & Theory Research (Ned Dimitrov, Mike Bond, Shimon Whiteson -- all UT PhD students) * Advice on Applying and Interviewing for Jobs, Steve Keckler * Panel: Work-Life Balance (Adam Brown, PhD student; Emmett Witchell, assistant prof; Kathryn McKinley, prof) ==== 2005-2006 Academic Year ==== UTCS Graduate Student Advice Day, May 11, 2006 * Overview & What we are doing to help you succeed, J Moore, Department Chair * Starting a research career & picking an advisor, Emery Berger, Assistant Prof at UMass (UT graduate) * What your advisor can do for you & managing your advisor, Doug Burger, Associate Professor * Communication skills - I speek pretty now, Mike Dahlin, Associate Professor * Networking, Pete Manolios, Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech (UT graduate) * What it takes to land academic interviews & how to create it, - Kathryn McKinley, Professor * Preparing for an academic interview, Karu Sankaralingam, Graduate Student * What I did right, what I would change, & other general advice, Long Huang, Graduate Student * What I did right, what I would change, & other general advice, JP Martin, Graduate Student ===== GAD Topics ===== Here are topics that have been suggested for Graduate Advising Day. Add your thoughts! Simply log in and edit this section. * Selecting exciting research projects * Choosing an advisor * Senior vs. junior * Prominent or not? * Checking with students * Picking a postdoc position * Giving talks * Introductions * Prettiness * Writing papers * Titles * Abstracts * Prof. Dahlin has been suggested as a good person to give this talk. * Professional Development Seminar on Writing * Picking a path: Academia vs. industry, teaching vs. research, lab vs. commercial * Industry vs. Academia panel talk * How to get an internship / how to be successful at an internship / Internship Panel * Networking * At conferences -- faculty / students * Grant writing * How to teach and advise * How to manage your advisor * Switching advisors * C.v. / resume / statement writing & review workshop * Preparing your Ph.D. proposal * Master's career opportunities * Interdisciplinary research * Strategies for finishing